Youth Activism in Chile: from urban educational inequalities to experiences of living together and solidarity

ABSTRACT: This article examines the geographies of youth political activism in Chile. It makes the argument that a historical spatial identity of public education, as the engine of working-class and middle-class mobility, intersecting both with contexts of social mixing and with a historical urban educational inequality, provides a different lens through which to understand youth activism. This article seeks to analyse the linkages between these spatialities of public education and different geographies of youth activism as spaces of living together and as practices of solidarity. It reflects on the need for ongoing debates on citizenship education to engage with these geographies of youth activism in order to fully understand the significance of youth political participation within neoliberal market-driven education agendas.

摘要：本文考察智利青年政治行动主义的空间维度。本文提出核心论点：作为工薪阶层与中产阶层向上流动核心动力的公共教育，其历史空间属性既与社会融合语境相交织，又与历史积淀的城市教育不平等现象相叠加，为理解青年行动主义提供了全新分析视角。本文旨在剖析公共教育的上述空间属性，与作为共同生活空间与团结实践场域的青年行动主义的不同空间维度之间的内在关联。本文同时反思：若要充分理解新自由主义市场主导的教育议程下青年政治参与的深层意义，公民教育领域的持续讨论必须纳入青年行动主义的相关空间语境。